Re: Making root fs disk

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

> How do I make the install disks? (Because my 486 won't boot from CD)
> 
> Is it $ dd if=/cdrom/some/root.img of=/dev/fd0 -[blah]=1440 ?

dd if=/.../root.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024  ( wait for the light to go out )
sync
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1  ( if / is one /dev/hda1 )


or you can try to use lilo, and change boot=/dev/fd0

or you can try "mkbootdisk 2.4.16"

or ??

- give um the values when prompted
- once for the rootdisk and another for bootdisk ( probably ide or scsi )

dos_utils/rawrite
	a:
	filename

- or use the dd command
	dd if=/cdrom/bootdisk of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
	- than the rootdisk

== your floppy disks has to be 100% clean.. no bad blocks

have fun
alvin

 
> I'm using RedHat until my CD set of Potato 2.2r4 arrives in the post, so my 
> floppy is mounted on /mnt/floppy and the device is /dev/fd0.
> 
> I have the boot disk, but I can't remember how I did it and the debian docs 
> on the CD don't say how to do it on Linux, only using rawrite or whatever.
> 
> So is it the same process for both disks, the bootable disk and the root 
> filesystem disk?
> 
> Thx,
> James
>